Modern Living Dead, Faster, Better

Rating: Null/10 (9 July 2003)

So there's finally a worthwhile horror film that is fun to watch NOT because it's cheesy and it comes from Europe. Danny Boyle reinvents the zombie film (sortof) in 28 Days Later... Jim wakes up from the hospital (very Stu in Stephen King's The Stand) to find out a virus has wiped out all of England. He meets up with a (very) few survivors and they make their way to what seems to be a small military stronghold where a cure is promised.

The music is just awesome. Very well used and completely adds to the pace of the film. Well, the second half of the film anyway. The first half is slow and there is a big difference between slow and boring which a lot of people don't seem to understand. I had these idiots in the theater talking on their cell phones twenty minutes into the movie, but that's neither here nor there. The point is, this movie seemed to take every good thing about the Living Dead movies and put them all into one very creepy film (thanks to the mini-digital video used for filming). I'd like to see a sequel. It would be feasible. But honestly, any thriller this thrilling would be a nice change of pace again.